Ex-San Francisco mayor Willie Brown responds to Trump's claim they shared near death experience

Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has said Donald Trump's claim they shared a near-death experience 'never happened'.

Republican presidential nominee Trump told reporters at a Mar-A-Lago news conference that he and Brown were in a helicopter that was forced to make an emergency landing and both men thought this 'may be the end'.

However, according to Brown, he and Trump have never rode in the same helicopter and he was instead doing his best 'creative fiction'.

'I've never done business with Donald Trump, let's start with that,' Brown told KRON4.

'And secondly, I don't think I'd want to ride on the same helicopter with him. There's too many people that have an agenda with reference to him, including the people who service helicopters!'

'He was doing what Donald does best, his creative fiction. He's creative, real creative. That's so far-fetched, it's unbelievable.'

He went on to say that the world 'would have known about it' if it was to have happened.

Discussing Kamala Harris, Brown also added: 'I was a part of every campaign that she's ever been involved in, supported her religiously and will still do so, and I am just looking forward for the next 89 days.'

Yesterday, Trump revisited his attacks on Harris' racial identity, saying in a press conference that the burden was on her to explain it.

Trump got asked in his hour long presser Thursday how he could have said the Demoratic presidential nominee 'happened to turn Black' – a comment he made during a contentious interview at a Black journalists association event.

A reporter noted that Harris' father is Jamaican-American and that she went to a historically black college – Howard University – wondering why it was accurate to say she recently decided to be Black. (Her mother is an immigrant to the U.S. from India.)

'Well, well, you'll have to ask her that question because she's the one that said it. I didn't say it,' Trump began. 'So you will have to ask her. And I very much appreciate that question. But you'll have to ask her.'

Then he continued to press the issue, while mentioning his own $6,000 in campaign donations he personally made to her when she was California's attorney general.

'But I've known her for a long time. I actually contributed to her campaign a long time ago, because I was a developer. 

'I contributed to lots of campaigns of Democrats, Republicans and some were liberal and some were conservative,' Trump said, before doubling down on his criticism of his opponent.